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and having at our disposal systems
ExactEarth that help to prevent natural disasters,
and Harris assist in avoiding and controlling the
pollution of maritime, continental and
have formed subterranean waters and, ultimately,
ensure environmental quality, repre-
sents a great advance in this field. ven and patented techno-
logy for the detection of
an alliance to In June, ExactEarth and Harris Cor- collision signals, and the
provide a new poration, developers of space, geo- experience of Harris in sa-
spatial and remote sensor solutions,
tellite payloads, as well as
level of AIS established a partnership to provide its advanced radio frequen-
a new level of AIS data services, with
cy technology and antenna
data services, global vessel monitoring coverage in solutions. Harris becomes
real time. This service will make use of
the exclusive AIS products
the real-time coverage and connecti-
vity of the Iridium NEXT constellation and services supplier for the
US government, including
with global through the implementation of 58 exactEarth’s exactAIS® ser-
coverage of payloads, covering the maritime VHF vice, while the latter conti-
frequency band.
nues to serve the rest of the
global market.
Compatibility testing between the
real time vessel hosted payload and the Iridium satelli- October saw the successful
tes has been completed, and the first launch of a new AIS (Auto-
monitoring launch is scheduled for early 2016, matic Information System)
with the entire constellation due to be satellite called exactView-9
completed in 2017. This new service will provide (EV9), with the aim of ex-
customers faster and more accurate informa- panding the exactView™
tion about their boats. With revisit and latency global ship monitoring cons-
times at below one minute, the expansion of this tellation which now consists
service represents a giant leap in the capacity of of 8 satellites.
exactEarth and Harris in delivering unpreceden-
The satellite was built by the
ted solutions in global information and the moni- University of Toronto Insti-
toring of maritime traffic.
tute for Aerospace Studies
This alliance will benefit from exactEarth’s pro- Space Flight Laboratory
and launched by the Satish
Dhawan Space Centre in
Sriharikota (India) on board
the Indian Space Research

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